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Source: COVID-19 Warning  Apr 28, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Warning: British pediatrics are warning about the emergence of rising numbers of cases of children becoming ill with a rare medical condition exhibiting symptoms of abdominal pain, gastrointestinal symptoms and cardiac inflammation.  Credit: CCO Public Domain The National Health Service England and the Pediatric Intensive Care Society UK and has issued an "urgent medical aler...
Source: COVID-19 Updates  Apr 28, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Updates: Medical researchers from the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health have found based on meta-analysis of reports and data of COVID-19 patients from Italy and China, as well as data from the H1N1 influenza pandemic, that obesity is likely a pre-existing condition that can exacerbate COVID-19.   Dr Carlos Santos-Burgoa, Professor of Global Heal...
Source: COVID-19 Tips  Apr 27, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Tips: Many individuals around the world complaining that they are being turned away from public healthcare hospitals and even being denied the COVID-19 test. Despites governments everywhere claiming that there are enough test kits and that they encourage testing, the reality is far from that.   In some countries when patients insist that they suspect might have contracted the COVID...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 27, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: Politicians and government officials with no medical or science training are trying to use medical and research platforms in the wrong way to formulate public policies to further their own personal and party agendas.   To date the whole COVID-19 crisis has been mismanaged by governments and also health authorities developing policies and guidelines.(Forget WHO…it is no...
Source: COVID-19 Tips  Apr 27, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Tips: More medical and scientific studies are emerging that supplements containing vitamins C and D and other micronutrients, sometimes in amounts exceeding the federally recommended levels, are a safe, effective and low-cost means of helping your immune system fight off COVID-19 and other acute respiratory tract diseases.   Researchers from Oregon State University recently publish...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 26, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: Media reports are breaking all over the Netherlands of cases of Human to Animal transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. https://nos.nl/artikel/2331784-coronavirus-vastgesteld-bij-nertsenfokkerijen-in-noord-brabant.html   Two separate mink farms reported cases of their animals developing breathing and gastrointestinal issues and veterinary experts decided to inform the autho...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Apr 26, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 USA: The way that CNN and certain media projected President Trump comments about trying to explore new ways to find a way to treat COVID-19 initially even shocked us at Thailand Medical News and made us angry but then as we started to review the footages more and more, we realized that maybe we were all simply reacting to the way that the media is trying to project him and also the rest o...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 26, 2020  4 years ago
 A new study by Russian medical researchers suggests that deficiency of endogenous glutathione could also be another influencing factor of the degree of susceptibility by individuals towards the SARS-CoV-coronavirus that causes the deadly COVID-19 disease. The research lead by Dr Alexey V Polonikov , a Professor from Department of Biology and Medical Genetics of Kursk State Medical Univers...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 26, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the University Of California, San Francisco indicate that the prostate glands has a high expression of ACE-2 receptors and also TMPRSS2 receptors which are the key targets of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus and that the gland has a high susceptibility of being targeted by the novel coronavirus and could also be another factor that accounts for the higher p...
Source: COVID-19 Editorial  Apr 25, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Editorial : I might sound politically incorrect,  but maybe the COVID-19 pandemic is call for man-kind to straighten out priorities. Perhaps humans really need to wake up and start facing a lot of realities. Of course, I am saddened and sympathize with those that have lost their loved ones and those who are suffering economic hardships. I, too, was infected with the disease and...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 25, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: The US FDA finally on Friday warned doctors against prescribing a malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump for treating COVID-19.   A medical alert sent by the regulators flagged reports of sometimes fatal heart side effects among coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine or the related drug chloroquine. The decades-old drugs, also prescribed fo...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 24, 2020  4 years ago
We at Thailand Medical News are in a state of shock. We totally sympathize with all Americans and will be publishing certain treatment protocols that have been backed by scientific studies for all to share this weekend but please do not attempt any treatments by yourself or let any doctors to offer you any of these treatments that were talked about by the President such as injecting disinfectants ...
Source: Europe COVID-19 News  Apr 24, 2020  4 years ago
Europe COVID-19 News: The Coronavirus pandemic had forced a lot of major events and exhibitions to be cancelled and as a result, Berlin’s main and largest exhibition canter, Messe was unused and empty. Even as Germany starts easing up on the lockdown ad public life, soldiers are busy giving the exhibition center a major makeover, converting it into a hospital.   Even as wires are stil...
Source: USA Covid-10 News  Apr 24, 2020  4 years ago
USA COVID-19 News: US Officials who are famous for spreading fake news and misinformation online such as the COVID-19 disease is just like common cold or that it is not air-borne or that Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine can treat and cure COVID-19 disease have now come up with new announcement that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is rapidly destroyed by sunlight. The announcement was made by a senior ...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care  Apr 24, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: According to research findings outlined in a letter published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, certain COVID-19 patients might show manifestations of skin conditions and eruptions. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jdv.16387   With a sudden rise of reports of patients presenting with skin conditions, including...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 24, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Media reports are emerging everywhere that not only has Gilead’s Remidesivir Clinical Trial in China failed but also there could be the possibility of a cover-up and future data being manipulated as a result of the Giant Pharma company’s extensive financial resources.   Reports are emerging that the experimental antiviral drug Remdesivir has failed in its first r...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 23, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 research: According to medical researchers from University of Utah Health, US  and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan-China, COVID-19 is unlikely to be spread through semen.   The researchers found no evidence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the deadly COVID-19 in the semen or testes of the Chinese men who participated in the study.   The resea...
Source: COVID-19 Pneumonia Drugs  Apr 23, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Pneumonia Drugs: Colchicine, an oral anti-inflammatory that has long been prescribed for gout, a form of arthritis with a long history dating back thousands of years is being studied as a possible treatment protocol for COVID-19. Besides treating gout, the drug that is made from phytochemicals of the autumn crocus flower has also been used by medical experts to treat pericarditis, a con...
Source: COVID-19 Crisis  Apr 23, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Crisis -EDITORIAL: As of Thursday (23rd April, 0800 hours Bangkok), there are more than to 2.6 million confirmed infected with the COVID-19 disease while another 184,220 people have died from the disease. So far about 23 million people globally have been tested for the COVID-19 disease.   By the end of the April, we should record about 200,000 deaths over the 4 month period si...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 23, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: To date the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus’s ability to mutate has been vastly underestimated even the slightest mutations has been taken lightly without realizing how these tiny changes are affecting the potency, characteristics and properties of the emerging strain and how these mutations affect their deadliness. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20060160v1.full...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 23, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study paper by Dr Adam M. Brufsky from the University Of Pittsburg School Of Medicine that has been published in the Journal of Medical Virology proposes that blood glucose can indirectly influence the level of severity in a patient infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the deadly COVID-19 disease.   https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.25887   Now medica...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 22, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Swiss medical researchers from University Hospital Zurich have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus basically attacks the endothelial cells lining the blood vessels, causing sepsis and multiple organ failure in critically  ill COVID-19 patients. The study is published in the Lancet journal. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30937-5/ful...
Source: COVID-19 Tips  Apr 22, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Tips: With almost 60 per cent of the world population having to wear mask now due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many like myself who wear spectacles or eye glasses have to navigate around the supermarkets, pharmacies or the pavements while dealing with fogged up glasses.   Individuals with glasses have learned the hard way during the coronavirus pandemic that wearing a face m...
Source: COVID-19 Global News  Apr 22, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Global News: According to the New York Times, at least 25,000 more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic over the last month than the official Covid-19 death counts report, a review of mortality data in 11 countries shows, providing a clearer, if still incomplete, picture of the toll of the crisis. Dead bodies being hurriedly 'disposed' off in Iran by authorities in t...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care  Apr 22, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: According to medical researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the presence of minute blood clots could be causing more severity to the conditions of moderate and critical COVID-19 patients. https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2020/mount-sinai-study-finds-covid19-may-be-driven-by-pulmonary-thrombi-and-pulmonary-endothelial-dysfunction-pr   The S...
Source: COVID-19 Ventilators  Apr 21, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Ventilators: Initially created by a robot scientist and a neurosurgeon to help India's poor, a toaster-sized ventilator is offering hope in the world's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and demand is booming. The affordable High Specs Indian AgVa Ventilator   The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus at its most lethal attacks the lungs and in most cases it is the immunity’s own&r...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings  Apr 21, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings: When, the COVID-19 crisis first broke out in China and subsequently in other parts of Asia, protective face mask and hand sanitizers became sought after commodities, creating an acute shortage and prices to escalate coupled with creating a nightmare for various governments. Then as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, health authorities and doctors realized that ventilators and ...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research  Apr 21, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: A recent randomized, controlled study on the safety and efficacy of either lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) or Arbidol, both antivirals that are used in some countries against HIV-1 and to treat influenza and respectively as treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, suggests that neither drug improves the clinical outcome of patients hospit...
Source: COVID-19 Breakthrough  Apr 20, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Breakthrough: According to a study by genomic and medical researchers at Scripps Research, an antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in 2003s has revealed a potential vulnerability of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The  antibody called CR3022, produced by a patient in response to the coronavirus that causes SARS, also binds to the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19....
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 20, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Medical researchers from Oregon Health And Science University, Portland, and the Portland VA Research Foundation have discovered that genetic variability in the human immune system may affect susceptibility to, and severity of infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for the deadly Covid-19 disease.   The research is...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 20, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Favipiravir or Avigan the flu drug that was developed by Toyama Chemicals in Japan that has since been acquired by Fuji Films Pharmaceuticals has been touted by many countries as an experimental drug for treating COVID-19 despite weak studies supporting its efficacy. It was brought to media attention by China advocating its use in one of its national health guidelines based on r...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 20, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: According to a recent research report from the University of Göttingen. In Germany, the number of confirmed cases for the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 officially issued by countries and widely reported by national and international media outlets dramatically understates the true number of infections. https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Bommer-Vollmer-2020-COVID-...
Source: COVID-19 World News  Apr 19, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 World News: The Australian government on today (19th April) called for an independent investigation into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, including the WHO or World Health Organization’s handling of the crisis. Marise Payne, the Australian Foreign Minister said the country would "insist" on a review that would probe, in part, China's early response to t...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research  Apr 19, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: A new meta-analysis collaborative study by medical researchers from the University of San Diego and  Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital in Shandong and also Shengjing Hospital in Shenyang, both in China, has confirmed that both Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine are both not effective for treating the COVID-19 disease and in fact caused a variety of adverse events in most pat...
Source: COVID-19 Studies  Apr 19, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Studies: Shanghai researchers are warning that a lot of recovered patients showed no signs of possessing the neutralising proteins or antibodies while majority had extremely low counts.   These could have major implications for vaccine development and herd immunity.   The researchers also warned that recovered patients also possessed a higher risk of reinfections.   The t...
Source: COVID-19 Protection  Apr 19, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Protection: N95 mask or respirators can be harmful to certain individuals with breathing problems and heart issues and also long term usage of these mask can also lead to serious medical conditions. (ATTENTION: PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE THIS ARTICLE OUT OF CONTEXT! IT IS IMPORTANT FOR ALL TO WEAR A PROTECTIVE MASK TO HELP STOP THE SPREAD THE COVID-19 DISEASE WHILE OFFERING PROTECTION TO ALL US...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 19, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: According to sources, a French research entity is planning  to start a clinical trial on Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 disease soon. A lot of medical professionals are now coming out in support of using Ivermectin as a experimental drug while the many clinical trials are underway may pave the path for its official repurposing as a COVID-19 drug.     The interest sta...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Research  Apr 18, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Research: A collaborative group of eleven international medical research organizations is investigating whether overactive immune cells that produce Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) cause the most severe cases. The consortium, called the NETwork, includes Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, and the Research Institute of the McGill Un...
Source: Japan COVID-19 Crisis  Apr 18, 2020  4 years ago
Japan’s COVID-19 Crisis: Almost all hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people as the country struggles with surging COVID-19 infections and its emergency medical system collapses.   In a recent incident, an ambulance carrying a man with a fever and difficulty breathing was rejected by 80 hospitals and forced to search for hours for a hospital in downtown T...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Apr 18, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: To date, millions of individuals have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, most using a kit that relies on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This sensitive method amplifies SARS-CoV-2 RNA from patient swabs using a thermocycler machine so that tiny amounts of the virus can be detected. But as the crisis surges, this laboratory technique that is time consum...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 18, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: An abstract study submitted by researchers from University Of Utah, Harvard Medical School and Surgisphere Corporation showed that COVID-19 patients who were critically ill with lung injury needing mechanical ventilation, benefitted from taking Ivermectin compared to other drug alternatives. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3570270   The study lead by Dr A...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Apr 18, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: New emerging  studies show that individuals infected with the SARS-CoV02 coronavirus could be spreading "aerosolized" viral particles as they cough, breathe or talk in a 13-foot radius, and viral particles can also move around on people's shoes.   Fortunately the studies also indicated that standard protective gear appears to effectively shield healt...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Apr 18, 2020  4 years ago
Breaking Medical News: Virologists are warning about the appearance of two new species of viruses that have been identified in blood samples taken from patients in Brazil's northern region who had similar symptoms to those of dengue or Zika, such as high fever, severe headache, rash and red skin spots.   A virus that belongs to the genus Ambidensovirus and was found in a sample collecte...
Source: COVID-19 DRUGS  Apr 18, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Ivermectin is gaining more attention as a possible drug candidate as it is an already approved drug for the treatment of parasites and also various virus causing diseases. It has already demonstrated to possess relevant antiviral properties.   More than 2.5 billion doses of the drugs have been used by humans in the last 30 years to treat malaria, dengue fever and even the &n...
Source : COVID-19 Research  Apr 17, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: French researchers lead by Professor Remi Charrel from the Aix-Marseille University in southern France  has discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to withstand high temperatures even when heated to as high as 60 degrees Celsius (140 Fahrenheit) for an hour, as it was found the that the new coronavirus was still able to replicate.   It was found that ...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Apr 17, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: According to an open-access Clinical Perspective article in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), so far  the radiology literature on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia has consisted of limited retrospective studies that do not substantiate the use of CT as a diagnostic test for COVID-19. https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.20.23202   ...
Source: COVID-19 Global Crisis  Apr 17, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Global Crisis: As on Friday Morning (0830hrs, 17th April 2020), the total number of confirmed infected individuals in the world is roughly about 2,195,000 while the official death toll is 147,027 (the real death toll could be around the range of 185,000 to 235,000 due to under reporting and cover ups by governments in most countries, and also in some cases as a result of lack of testing, ...
Source: COVID-19 ALERT  Apr 16, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Alert: To add to many studies already showing that the deadly and potent ways the SARS-Cov-2 has of attacking various human host cells and also critical proteins and cellular pathways in the human cells, a new collaborative study by researchers from the United States and China now shows that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus also attacks the T Lymphocytes similarly to the way that HIV viruses ac...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments  Apr 16, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: A major medical debate has emerged among healthcare professionals treating COVID-19 as to when should patients who need help breathing be placed on ventilators and could intubation do some patients more harm than good? Currently it has emerged as one of the biggest medical dilemma. Supporting research studies and data is scarce and there aren't yet formal studies on th...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 15, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs : Hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug that is being advocated by some to treat COVID-19 despite the dangers associated with its use, appeared not to help patients get rid of the pathogen in yet another new study by researchers from China. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.10.20060558v1.article-info The drug did not help patients clear the virus better tha...
Source: COVID-19 Updates  Apr 15, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Updates: Medical researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine are warning that in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic or even currently in recovered patients and also those that are asymptomatic, a host of neuropsychiatric challenges may emerge and healthcare professionals need to pay careful attention to these.   Their research findings were published ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research  Apr 15, 2020  4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: Medical and genomic researchers have been for the last few months  been trying to identify the species of origin to understand how the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus first leapt from its animal hosts to humans, causing the current pandemic infecting millions globally and causing almost 200,000 deaths so far.   Researchers have been looking for an intermediate animal ho...
Source: COVID-19 Blood Plasma Therapy  Apr 14, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Blood Plasma Therapy: Medical experts from Johns Hopkins have created a clinical guide to help hospitals and medical centers rapidly scale up their ability to deliver so-called convalescent plasma therapy, which leverages immune system components found in the plasma portion of blood from people who have recovered from COVID-19 illness.   Dr Evan M Bloch, M.D., M.S. an Associate Pro...
Source: US COVID-19 Crisis  Apr 14, 2020  4 years ago
US COVID-19 Crisis: Initially, there was only reports COVID-19 lung damage. Then came revelations of cardiovascular complications in patients with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Now, the COVID-19 crisis is highlighting how certain populations, namely African-Americans, in some cities are dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than other populations. Dr. Clyde Yancy (left) and Dr. Robert Bonow (right)....
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research  Apr 14, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: More mounting evidence is emerging that both Choloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine have no clinical efficacy whatsoever for the treatment for COVID-19 and on the contrary can be actually dangerous and fatal for certain patients.   Choloroquine was first brought in the limelight by unprofessional and unregulated clinical studies conducted by certain Chinese researchers ...

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